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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association has chosen the theme “Memories” for its focus panel at the 2024 conference and invites paper proposals. Please see attachment for details
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Children's Literature Association, International Committee CFP to
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association has chosen the theme “Memories” for its focus panel at the 2014 annual conference. Please see attached call for proposals.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe International Committee’s Focus panel for the 2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference is “Memories”. Please see attachment for details.
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP ACLA seminar “Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance” in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoFor distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.
Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoMcDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Philadelpia: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Literature in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoNote to all: The deadline for submissions has now been moved to March 28, 2023.
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Jonathan Hiller started the topic CFPs for MLA 2024 Philadelpia: 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Literature in the discussion
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Italian Forum is pleased to invite submissions for two guaranteed panels and one non-guaranteed roundtable for the 2024 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, Jan. 4–7).
The deadline to send your abstracts to the panel organizers is March 22, 2023.Thank you for considering and we hope to see you in P…[Read more]
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 2004-2023 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 2004-2023.
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Karin E. Westman uploaded the file: MLA Sessions 1980-2003 to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoAn archive document listing MLA sessions in children’s / YA literature, 1980-2003.
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Karin E. Westman started the topic Updates from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 11 months agoGreetings from the MLA Children’s and YA Lit Forum Executive Committee!
Our committee will be meeting online this year directly following the MLA Convention (Jan 5-8). At the meeting, we will be considering nominations for the Executive Committee as well as session proposals for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia (Jan 4-7).
So we can ensure representation…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoGian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Proposals: Children's Literature Association Conference to
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe International Committee invites paper abstracts for its panel at the 2023 ChLA Conference. The theme is “islands”. Please see attached file.
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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